The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-02-16

| Mr.. Hagans moved that the house adjourn.
| Which motion did not prevail.
| Mr.. Gorrell moved that the call of the roll
on the motion to reconsider be completed.
| whereupon,
Mr.. Hagans made the point of
order that the roll call had already
been completed and the vote taken
upon the question announced BY
the Speaker.
Mr.. Gorrell made the point of
order that the completion of the
roll call was the only business in
order, as the call of the House had
been made in order to secure a QUO
rum for that purpose.
The speaker ruled the first point
not we'll taken, and the second
point of order well taken.
The call of the roll was then
completed, and on the question,
To reconsider the vote on ordering
the bill to its epgrossmrt and
third reading, and to lay the mo.
ton to reconsider on the table,
The ayes were:
Messrs. Byrne, Cochran, P. B;
Cook, Davisson, Depue, Ferguson,
Gandee, Gates, Gorrell, hamilton,
Harding, Raymond, Hensley.
Hoke, Holmes, Kincaid, Largent,
McClung, McWhorter, Middleton,
Peck, Reynolds, Rife, Shaw, Smith
Sturm, Thsyer, Toler, woodward.
Yeager and Young-31.
Messrs. Rowan, (Speaker,) and
Cakes voted no-2.
Absent on leave and not voting.
Messrs. Bowers, Brown, Cham.
bers, Chancellor, Chew, Chipley,
Cochran, Jacob; Crockett, Crow,
Duval, Garden, Gleason, Hagans,
Hager, Hiner, Jones, Kellar. Kidd,
Kinsey, Lucas, McComb be-, McKin.
ney, pugh, Ragland, Ropp, Rose
berry, Sinclair, Spencer, Syden-
stricken, Taylor, Whitaker and
Woods-32.
So the motion to lay the motion
to reconsider on the table was
agreed to.
On motion OF Mr.. Hamilton the
rules were suspended and the said
bill (H. B. 80, was made the spe-
cial order for tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock.
On motion of Mr.. Hensley,. the
House adjourned until tomorrow
morning at $50 o'clock.
VICTORY AND DARKNESS.
HE ENEMY LOVED DARKNESS, BUT
BRoUGHR 1T TOO LATE.
There is no time here to describe
the exciting scenes of the closing
hour OF this evening session. The
enemy finding themselves corner
ed, beaten and baffled at every
point, sought to delay matters by
resorting to all she folly and excess.
es known to parliamentary filibus.
tering. In addition to all the dila.
tory motions and roll calls recorded
in the foregoing proceedings, shere
were countless motions, "points of
order" and poSatless speeches inter
jected to delay the regular proceed.
ings on the Bill.
Failing to confuse the Nome
fsrces by these tactics, a resort WAS
had to the desperate expedisnt Of
trying to
BREAK THE Quorum.
This was successful for a time
but "call of the House, soon
blocked this game, and as last re.
sort plan was hit upon that was
not only desperate but dangerous.
Just as the Bill was finally passed
to its third reading and q motion
was made to adjourn, n an instant
the whole Capitol building was
left in total darkness. The evident
purpose was to break up tho session
by turning off the gas and leaving
the Assem- bly, in darkness but this
came too late. Victory was acbiev-
ed before the darkness came.
For time there was
CONFEDERATION IN THE BUILDING
and much apprehension of anex.
plosion from escaping gas. The uf-
fcers on duty hurried through,
turning off the jets ia all the halls